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RefNoPT/9/16/6
LevelItem
TitlePlate, 'The respiratory organs [of the Aphrodita aculeata] laid bare by removing the skin and muscles of the back' by William Clift
Date[1815]
DescriptionPlate XIII containing figure 2 in graphite and grey watercolour. The illustration shows the respiratory organs of the Aphrodita aculeata [sea mouse], a type of sea worm.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the structure of the organs of respiration in animals which appear to hold an intermediate place between those of the class pisces and the class vermes, and in two genera of the last mentioned class'.

Read 1 June 1815.
Extent1p
FormatWatercolour
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite and watercolour on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0016
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1815.0017
RelatedRecordPT/9/16
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA4668Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon1756 - 1832
NA7491Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator1775 - 1849
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